New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-05
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
SIGNS OF APPROACHING DISSOLUTION.
FRAGMENTARY GROUPS IN THE COMMONs-LIBERAL-
UNIONIsTs LOSING HEART-JURY
PACKING IN IRELAND.
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DUBLIN, Feb 4.-Thc second week OF the session
finds Parliament depressed and foggy. There
never q situation out Of which it was so
difficult to ahead Members hang around
listlessly, everybody sharing the feeling that we
are bound to strike rock presently which
the Parliamentary ship will break in pieces. Al
ready the Tadpoles and Tapers are busy making
their books for the prospective election We
have as many fragmcntary groups as they have In
Germany. The only coherent whole is that Of the
GladstOnans and Parnelltes. Among the others
all the motley opponents of the Home Rule idea,
Old Tories, Churchill Tories, Whip Unionists, Rad
ical Unionists and the Chamberlain family, signs
OF what Mr.. Gladstone, In his remarkable article
in the "Ninetecnth Century calls "a c1umblng
process" are distinctly apparent Lord llartinSt
ton sees his battalions melting away and exhorts
them not to lose heart, while his own heart
misgives him. That is Che plain realing Of his
Newcastle speech. Last night in the House OF
| Commons one OF his strongest fOllowers-Mr
Winterbot manufactured, in effect, that the only
settlement of the Irish question lay in Home
Rule. and the only man he thought could settle
it was Mr.. Gladstone.
Lord Randolph Churchill has gone to Algeria.
leaving his party TO stew for few weeks in the
grease which he so pcntifuy sprinllcd with
pepper on Monday and TO keep himself clear Of
the obloquy which their mean and laundering
tyranny In Ireland will lead them into.
As for Mr.. Chamberlain, was able to announce
a couple of days ago that his Round Table Con-
ference had broken up though this is not yet q
matter of public knowledge, and viii not meet
again unless miracle happens. That miracle
should be Mr.. Chamberlain overcoming his i'm
pacable enmity toward Mr.. parnell, feeling
which chOEpc him at thc thought of having TO
surrender to him in The end
Meanwhile the English mind is being steadily
educated in the doctrine of Home Rule for Ire
land The Trial Of McssIs. Dillon. O'Brcn and
their colleagues is about being proceeded with be-
fore jury as well packed as the jury of the time
of NorbuIy, but cony icton will strike no terror
Davitt who has just returned, will take Dllon's
place and the work will 60 as before.
Lord Dunsandlc yesterday followed Lord Dill
Ions example in surrendering to the Plan of Cam
paign and Lord De Freyne and Mr.. Ponsonhy are
daily expected TO DO likewise.
Such is the situation we are drifting into
Whether the rock that smashcs us up be a Euro
pcan war or a division of Lord Randolph's on the
budget, the rock is not far of. AS 10 Lord Ran
dolph's sTeech, which criticised the other even
ing, | should like further to call your attention
30 the small part his "fads7 about the estimates.
the ostensible cause. and the large part his differ
cnces with his colleagues play Ia his resignation
He would have been satisfied. he says, with a re-
trenchment of 100000. Who believes that
difference of half a million in est imates amounting
TO E3l 900, 900 would have caused him to resign?
As hinted weeks before his resignation, his quar-
rel was not with Lord George IIamilton's csti-
mates, but with Lord George Hamilton himself
in fact with what he called in his letter 10 Lord
Salisbury the militant circle OF the Admiralty
aud War Office and with the botches and the
Ephesians Of the Irish Administration His iron
ical compliments to Sir Michael IIiclxs-Bcach were
the most scathing satire he could apply ~ the
Governments policy in Ireland. The fact Is he
was disguised with the whole gang. to use his
own word. and with the gang in Dublin Castle
most of all. Il. l.. GILL, M. +.